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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: piping of marked articles
Date: 23 May 1996 22:36:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8srasbf24g.fsf@hler.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Justin Zaglio's message of 23 May 1996 18:31:18 -0400

Justin Zaglio <justin@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> writes:

> 	I have a large number of articles (say, 100 or so) in an nnml
> spool file, each article having only a few lines of text; I can easily
> process mark the articlesp using M P R or along those lines, but then I
> would like to pipe *all* the marked articles through a shell script.
> The problem is this: Gnus seems to pipe *each* article one by one
> through the shell script; this is not what I want.  I would Gnus to
> concatenate the text from all the articles and *then* pipe the Whole
> Thing through the script.

I don't think this is currently possible.  You could `X o' the
articles first and then pipe the result, but that's kinda yucky.  

I've added this to the Red Gnus todo list.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen


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1996-05-23 22:31 Justin Zaglio
1996-05-23 22:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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